Legal Opinion
People v. Bruetsch
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided February 29, 1988PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Rockland County (Edelstein, J.), rendered October 2, 1986, convicting him of murder in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and sentencing him to an indeterminate term of from 20 years to life imprisonment.
Ordered that the judgment is modified, as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, by reducing the minimum term of the sentence from 20 years to 15 years; as so modified, the judgment is affirmed.
Witnesses testified at the defendant’s trial that he dragged *824his estranged wife into his car, shot her in the back as she…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- People v. ContesNew York Court of Appeals · 1983
- People v. CasassaNew York Court of Appeals · 1980
- People v. RobertsonAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1986
- People v. RiveraAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1986
3Cited by5 opinions
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- People v. LudwigsenAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1990
- People v. WilliamsAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1993
- People v. FisherAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1991
- People v. WentzAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1989